A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines.

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.